{"id":605467,"date":"2026-04-14T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605467\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:50:13","slug":"weather-forecast-for-supercars-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605467\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather forecast for Supercars in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOLD on to your umbrellas, because New Zealand\u2019s weather may still have some tricks in store for this weekend\u2019s debut of the Supercars Championship at Ruapuna Raceway near Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>After Tropical Cyclone Vaianu saw the cancellation of Sunday\u2019s on-track activities at Taup\u014d International Motorsport Park, precipitation is expected to play a role over this race weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/the-full-updated-christchurch-super440-schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The full updated schedule for this weekend can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curiously, Friday afternoon\u2019s race is listed with a time-certain cut-off of 1 lap after 5:48pm NZST, while sunset for the day is listed as 5:55pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-3?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/v8sleuth-mag-issue3_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand MetService is currently predicting partly cloudy conditions on Friday, with a chance of an afternoon shower accompanied by strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, occasional rain is expected to clear in the evening, while rain is expected to develop on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>With the format for the weekend calling for a sole 45-minute-long practice session, four qualifying sessions, each to be contested in two parts, a lone top-10 shootout on Sunday, with a trio of 120km races leading into Sunday\u2019s 200km <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-88-Jason-Richards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Richards<\/a> Trophy decider, an emphasis will be placed on tyre choice throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Christchurch forecast per NZ MetService (as at 14\/04\/26)<\/p>\n<p>Friday April 17: Temperatures 11-20 degrees, 1mm+ 60% chance<\/p>\n<p>Saturday April 18: Temperatures 6-19 degrees, 1mm+ 80% chance<\/p>\n<p>Sunday April 19: Temperatures 6-15 degrees, 1mm+ 80% chance<\/p>\n<p>Jack Perkins on his breakthrough Bathurst 1000 podium finish<\/p>\n<p>On the Bathurst 1000 edition of The Undercut, Jack Perkins recalls his breakthrough podium from the Bathurst 1000, which came in a dramatic 2019 race alongside James Courtney at Walkinshaw Andretti United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLD on to your umbrellas, because New Zealand\u2019s weather may still have some tricks in store for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-605467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}